5:49 AM
The first planet has been found from outside the Milky Way, but the big discovery is the star it is orbiting around. the star appears to be at the stage that our Sun will be billions of years from now when it expands hundreds of times its size and swallows planets like Earth:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2032054,00.html?hpt=T2
DHS testified to Congress that the Stuxnet virus (which apparently targeted Iran's nuclear power plants) is a "game changer" that poses a serious threat to worldwide infrastructure. The code can automatically enter a system, steal the secrets of the product being manufactured, alter the ingredients being mixed into the product, and indicate to the operator and the anti-virus software that everything is fine:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/17/stuxnet.virus/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Qualcomm says that its future Snapdragon processor (the current 1 GHz version dominates Android smartphones) will have a *5 GHz* dual core processing, 5x the processing speed while using just 75% of the electric power. Qualcomm said that the next generation of smartphones and tables will have the graphics capabilities of an XBox 360 or Playstation 3:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46954&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Yahoo tried to buy Groupon for between $2 billion and $3 billion earlier this year but Groupon declined. Now, Google is apparently in discussions to buy Groupon for significantly more than $3 billion:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-looking-acquire-social-commerce-powerhouse-groupon/2010-11-19#ixzz15lz5hEix
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2032054,00.html?hpt=T2
DHS testified to Congress that the Stuxnet virus (which apparently targeted Iran's nuclear power plants) is a "game changer" that poses a serious threat to worldwide infrastructure. The code can automatically enter a system, steal the secrets of the product being manufactured, alter the ingredients being mixed into the product, and indicate to the operator and the anti-virus software that everything is fine:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/11/17/stuxnet.virus/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Qualcomm says that its future Snapdragon processor (the current 1 GHz version dominates Android smartphones) will have a *5 GHz* dual core processing, 5x the processing speed while using just 75% of the electric power. Qualcomm said that the next generation of smartphones and tables will have the graphics capabilities of an XBox 360 or Playstation 3:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46954&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Yahoo tried to buy Groupon for between $2 billion and $3 billion earlier this year but Groupon declined. Now, Google is apparently in discussions to buy Groupon for significantly more than $3 billion:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-looking-acquire-social-commerce-powerhouse-groupon/2010-11-19#ixzz15lz5hEix